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There's an annoying trend in the newbie Linux world of comparing the RAM usage of different DEs and distros and using that to determine how bloated they are. It
by 1_player 5y ago
There's an annoying trend in the newbie Linux world of comparing the RAM usage of different DEs and distros and using that to determine how bloated they are. It keeps annoying me because they conflate cached ram with used ram, and a desktop environment might actually use more ram but be faster in general. Pretty weird to be proud of a DE using ~500MB of ram when you have 16GB. And sometimes some memory usage is percentage based. My desktop consumes a couple GB at boot and as much in caches, but I have 64 of them.
Free memory is useless memory. You paid for it, let it work for you.
- nix23 5y agoWhat annoys me most...when they compare it they often completely forget to remove the filecache, like the famous openbsd example. Install OpenBSD then Htop (why why why??) then be astonished that it uses 380MB (350MB of that is filecache and isn't shown as cache in Htop)